Hospital corners but skipping the side tuck? That’s the best of both worlds. Sleep comfort wins.
If I were running any kind of hospitality-housing setup, yes, I’d have “vacuum floors” as part of daily (and also less frequent) housekeeping service in the rooms, along with “make beds” and “clean bathrooms” and “empty trash”. [ETA: yes, just as @Seanette specified.]
I mean, I don’t think it’s that theoretical; hotel housekeeping training manuals explicitly specify that bedlinens should be tightly and smoothly tucked in all around the sides of the mattress, and AFAICT the only reason is to give the bed a (durable) neat and smooth appearance with no wrinkles or edges peeking out. Of course there is no reason for an individual to take that rigorous an approach to their own home bedmaking, I certainly never would!
So, it’s not to make it easier to clean the floor. It’s just to make the bed look tidy.
Yep. Sometimes hotel bedspreads themselves are long enough to nearly reach the floor and get in the way of vacuuming, so tucking in the bedlinens beneath the bedspread wouldn’t alleviate that. But it’s very effective in making the smooth and neat appearance of the bed very robust.
If you leave the bedlinen sides loose, an accidental tug on the top turnover or something can make the bed look wrinkled and lopsided. When everything is battened down and only the (heavier) decorative bedspread is lying loose on top, it’s harder to mess the bed up so that it needs remaking.
When i was in Denmark and Northern Germany, the bed had a (fitted) lower sheet, and a fluffy (down, or fake down) quilt in a washable coverlet. You “made the bed” by folding the quilt nearly and plopping it on top of the sheet. I often did that.
I’ve been getting a lot of airbnb ads in my social feeds lately, of two types:
- “This couple’s home in Poughkeepsie paid for their villa in Rome!” and…
- “You can make so much money with airbnb that you can even pay someone else to manage your property for you, and just rake in cash.”
… doesn’t make me feel particularly good about being a customer.
My Airbnb bed had a duvet instead of a top sheet and blanket. Makes a lot of sense, easy to make the bed and since the duvet cover is removable it’s easy to change it for cleaning.
At home Ive always used a top sheet and it often gets twisted or pushed aside. And in the middle of the night I’m trying to adjust the bed covers. I’d be willing to switch to a duvet.
It’s amazing how many middleman businesses advertise like that.
AirBnB is telling owners they’ll get rich and consumers they’ll save money. Logically speaking, one or both of those things has to be a lie. Either that or conventional hotels are a total high margin rip-off.
It’s just funny odd (but not funny haha) when you get to see the ads that are aimed at the other side of the transaction from you.
Ah yes, the classic northern European duvet-cover setup: It’s a sheet! It’s a blanket! It’s a sheet AND a blanket!
Yup, works fine, although makes it somewhat harder to achieve the taut and smoothly planar bedspread-covered look that the typical American hotel is striving for.
I think there’s also the angle of “supporting these small businesses (as a customer) allows you to help your fellow Regular People achieve their dreams!” Whether you decide to start up your own AirBnb or choose it over a hotel next time, the advertising brings money to the platform.
For some reason most of the ads I see online now are for how a huge percentage of Amazon shops and TikTok shop channels are just Regular People with small businesses. I think Capitalism is getting the picture that we’re tired of forking over our money to shareholders. They want to make us feel good about the fact that your neighbors are ALSO cogs in the machines but DIFFERENT cogs.
Except if it’s too hot for the duvet, but too cool for nothing. Most summers I only sleep with the top sheet on me.
Professionally speaking, duvets suck.
I want the room at a comfortable temperature. That’s 75+, so getting up & walking around barely clothed isn’t an act of desparation w chattering teeth. And my head & arms are comfortable while uncovered in bed. And so the bed itself isn’t chilled through like a morgue slab.
A duvet will inevitably lead to a fever-like drenched in sweat experience if the room is above about 65. Meanwhile my head is gathering frostbite and I have to somehow avoid arms out from under the covers. Not to mention the morgue slab effect.
Did I mention they suck? There is no room temperature at which they are anything but a mistake; a terrible mistake.
I always sleep with only a comforter all year long.
When it’s hot I only have it cover part of me. It works out fine.
I slept last night with no cover at all. With a fan blowing on me the whole time. I was not cold at all.
It’s an unusual unbearable heat wave.
Different strokes for different folks. I have trouble sleeping when the air is warmer than 68F. 55F with a warm comforter is awesome. (Yes, i have trouble sleeping in the summer. I have since i was a kid.) I love that the duvet is light and fluffy and holds warmth without weighing me down. I love that I can stick a leg outside it easily, to regulate my core temperature. I love how easy it is to make the bed look tidy. And if it’s real down, it breathes well, and can be used (with some limbs sticking out) into fairly warm temps without discomfort.
Can someone explain what they mean by “duvet”? It’s not a term I’m familiar with. My beds have sheets, blankets, and sometimes a quilt or comforter.
It’s very much like a quilt or comforter, and is used in pretty much the same way, but it is usually thicker and it’s almost always used with a cover (like a huge flat pillowcase) so that you can wash that cover rather than the whole thing. Also, you can change the cover to change the look without getting a different duvet.
They aren’t used much in the US. We tend to use a comforter with some kind of sheet underneath. (Though a lot of people don’t bother with the sheet either; I have never used one for my own bed in my adult life.)
Here’s a picture of one without a cover:
As you can see it’s almost like a bunch of flat pillows sewn together.
Sometimes people use “duvet” and “comforter “ interchangeably, but a comforter doesn’t need a cover, it’s the cover and stuffing all in one piece. A duvet really is the stuffing and then there’s a separate duvet cover. Which means I can, if I want to, have a single duvet and have covers to match every set of sheets.
Back when the filling was routinely down, the duvet part was both much more expensive and much harder to wash than the duvet covers. It’s still a pain to wash any quilt, but not as much as to wash a giant pile of down. So it was a very practical way to arrange things.
My mom gave me a really nice down duvet when i got married. We’ve worn out two covers, and are using a third. The duvet is still in good shape.